Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

The first recipe I tried in the new milk machine was a dud. It just tasted like bean juice. The machine worked flawlessly and I can see other recipes turning out a lot better. The inner and outer mixing containers is a good idea. The blender/processor turn nuts into a butter and the after adding water it filters milk to the outer container where you turn on a spigot to empty it. It is very easy to clean. I'll be experimenting for a while with rice, soy, oats etc...

The knee pic was an unexpected achievement, I am supposed to reach 90˚ by the end of December, I'm almost there today. I ordered a real knee degree indicator from Amazon to be here next week.

78˚ here today, my knee got a little sun on the patio. I did not walk the golf course, the rough ground to get to the cart path looked like a fall hazard, but Whipper and my wife took advantage of the Holiday.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 56F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind day, variable cloudiness, and high temp of 79F, DP 42F. Woke up first so cranked up coffee pot, and plugged in tree lights. Wife was up shortly, and we spent most of day together. did try out new charger on trolling motor batteries, and tracked down rubbing noise on tire, and tried to remove one of the rear derailleur mounting screws which had lost it's head. will get new screws to replace the other 2. Late lunch at Stepdaughter's house, ate on back porch. Turkey was smoked by SIL and he did nice job. No nap, did not get home soon enought
Covid update: Cooke 4316 confirmed cases, 98 active cases, Montague 2780 confirmed cases, 79 active cases, Grayson, 16,816 confirmed cases, 243 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases.
Bill good luck with driveway.
Gale hope you can recover your fertilizer
Drew so why did you get up?
Ron great pic of Sassy
NHBX nice pic
Roy enjoy your snow, thanks for the link.
Bird glad no problem with knee after 11 years.
Randy just keep you focus on who is still around you!
Bird hope family get together went well.
Randy glad world is brighter
Phil sorry weather is messing with plans
Paul enjoy your family time
Drew never had stairs to come down to Christmas. glad the apple date nut bread is good.
Thomas enjoy your snow, hope not too much freezing rain.
Buppies walk on beach sounds nice. hope Santa was nice too
RNG more rain and chili sounds interesting
Repete, welcome to GM, congrats on whit Christmas.
Don sorry knee so swollen. Golf course was open. Sounds like a fun machine, I will bet you don't try the nut milk
Rich I am amazed cats not in tree, Mom's cats were always in tree, had to put heavy block to prevent tipping
Ted nice way to wake up.
Dennis you are lighting stove at 53F outside temp.
David you have your marching orders
RS hope you have a good woodworking day, enjoy the staying home part.
Inane2 welcome to GM thread. hope forecast holds true.
Thomas glad mrs happy with her day.
Fuddy happy birthday and glad you had dinner with your mom.
Buppies much warmer than that here.
Drew neat pic, glad you had good dinner
James enjoy your easy time
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don/knee recovery /ring bearer/back broken & infections, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL covid, /new cancer surgeries, PJ/FIL death, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations/ angina, wife/ankle recovery, Billy/ wife fall, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/good biopsy report, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Bill/ getting care for DIL and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[two_bit_score]

Good evening all. 56F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind day, variable cloudiness, and high temp of 79F, DP 42F. Woke up first so cranked up coffee pot, and plugged in tree lights. Wife was up shortly, and we spent most of day together. did try out new charger on trolling motor batteries, and tracked down rubbing noise on tire, and tried to remove one of the rear derailleur mounting screws which had lost it's head. will get new screws to replace the other 2. Late lunch at Stepdaughter's house, ate on back porch. Turkey was smoked by SIL and he did nice job. No nap, did not get home soon enought
Covid update: Cooke 4316 confirmed cases, 98 active cases, Montague 2780 confirmed cases, 79 active cases, Grayson, 16,816 confirmed cases, 243 active cases. Cooke 0, Montague 0, Grayson 0, new cases.

Good to see the CV is all but eliminated in your area!

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-12-26, 0457

Nice Christmas...just the 4 of us (Wife, Stepdaughter, Puppy and me). Got my usual, new skivies!!
Good chow, good booze (wife and stepdaughter had Mimosas, I stuck with the Jameson's)
Not so good weather, pretty icy on the roads, but we didn't have to go anywhere

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee poured. 26° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 37° with a mix of sun and clouds. Got all my Christmas phone calls done. about 5 hours. Good thing was using hands free. One of the calls was Facetime with GD and GGD. So much fun to watch a 2 year old enjoy Christmas. Yesterday's warmth has melted all the snow from a few days ago. May get a new coating by weeks end.
No plans for today.
Squirrels have been very active at feeders.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Bird]

txdon said, "The knee pic was an unexpected achievement, I am supposed to reach 90˚ by the end of December, I'm almost there today. I ordered a real knee degree indicator from Amazon to be here next week."

Yep, it can be a bit of a slow progress, but if you stay with the exercises, you'll get there. My right knee bends just as far and just as easily now as the left one that has not had surgery.

 

[Bird]

Both of our daughters, son-in-law, and granddaughter here for Christmas dinner yesterday. First time I can remember eating Christmas dinner outdoors, but the record high temperature and almost no breeze made it very pleasant out there on the patio. So we had a very nice Christmas, and as usual, more food than we needed. In spite of them taking some home with them, I reckon I'll be eating left overs for the new 3 days.

 

[Thomas]

25F low thirty's for high cloudy day.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...try scrape much snow ice from driveway with back blade,least 1 wheel barrow wood into basement,watch little football...kinda of putter day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[wngsprd]

49 going to 69...hit 72 yesterday...lots of outdoors time.

Happy Birthday, Fuddy and Mrs BEF.

Great progress, Don!

My wife heard me telling a story a couple of weeks ago of how I had always asked for a BB gun when I was a kid, and the response was always, "when you turn 12 years old"...then at 12, it didn't happen for some other safety related reason (good valid reason, I'm sure). So, guess what I got yesterday? Yep, a Red Ryder and a box of 2400 Daisy BBs. I found some old paper targets with a squirrel that looks just like yours, Ron. My son and I had target shooting contests for over an hour. Good fun, but my parents were right...we almost blew up the place with a ricochet off the propane tank.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
this warm weather is not hard to take, sunny and nice today, high in 50's.
I'm off to church this morning and then to a childhood friend where I see my goddaughter and her kids.
The other son in this family who lives on Long Island had to cancel. One of their kids tested positive so they are now
quarantining. I almost cancelled this visit but now that there will be half the number of folks there, seems less risky.
But I will wear my mask, yes it's a nuisance but sure better than getting sick or making someone else sick.

it was an interesting time when I became an "unofficial" godfather. Only baptized Christians can be true godparents and that's not me.
But I told them I would raise, support and love their daughter and that was what they wanted. I was told to "just say yes" by parents.
Which I did. But it is a little strange for a Quaker to be a godfather but here's a case where the big print is more important than the fine print.
And some 35 years later my goddaughter is doing just fine. I wonder if there are godparents or something similar in other religions.
Sure wish I had taken more comparative religion classes. The more we understand about each other, hopefully the better we will all get along.

I dumped about a pound of various cookies and sweets into trash this morning. I keep telling everyone no sweets, but no one pays attention.
Domino Sugar must make half its profit over the holidays. I'd put the cookies out for the birds but it would attract the deer and around here that's
a big no.

Wingsprd, glad you got a fun toy for Christmas. I think target shooting is a lot of fun.